(DURIP) GROWTH CAPABILITIES FOR EMERGING COMPOUNDS SEMICONDUCTORS AND SEMIMETALS
Abstract
The primary goal of this proposal is to acquire a tool that can greatly enhance our efforts in understanding physics and explore the applications of a new type of materials known as Weyl semimetals, while allowing us to renew our infrastructure for standard III-V optoelectronic materials. The tool we are seeking to acquire is a metal organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) machine that has been so far commonly used to epitaxially grow III-V optoelectronic semiconductors ( like GaAs, AlGaAs, InP, InGaP, etc.). Here we intend to expand the use of this tool for growing new type of materials- mostly semimetals. With the advent of topological materials (which Weyl semimetals are a subcategory) and their promising optoelectronic properties, it becomes increasingly important to develop new techniques for growing them in desirable shape, large scale, and short time. A properly configured MOCVD machine can address all these aspects, thus accelerating the research and development in this new emerging field.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Apr 20, 2023
- Source ID
- FA95502210491
Entities
People
- Mercedeh Khajavikhan
Organizations
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research
- United States Air Force
- University of Southern California